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Indonesian Lecturers Have To be Familiar with Writing Articles in English

August 7, 2016, oleh: superadmin
Writing articles in English for some lecturers provides more benefits than that in Bahasa in
terms of internasionalization. The articles are possible not only as references or citations for
some people in some countries, but also enabling some readers review them. This is
beneficial for the career of the lecturers who write the articles. The number of citations will
improve track records of the authors. This reason is the answer why lecturers in Indonesia
should improve and produce more articles in English.
Prof. Taufik, a speaker from California Poly State University, explained this in Workshop of
Writing Articles titled “How to Write a High Quality Article” held by Faculty of Engineering
UMY on Thursday 4th August 2016 in Room Stadium General. He suggested to the lecturers
in Indonesia to start writing articles in English. This habbit will lead some reviewers all over
the world reading the articles. He said “Please, dont be affraid to try. That is the important
point, willing to try. You can join some conferences in Indonesia and start writing papers in
English.” Besides, He also explained that the articles written in English have opportunity to
be published in international journals. Regarding this, the articles will be references to some
people in some countries.
However, he recognized that Indonesian authors mostly do mistakes on selecting appropriate
words when they write the articles in English. For instance, he said “They use unnecessary
words in a title of an article which make it too detail”.” Therefore, it is important to
Indonesian writers to improve their writing skills”, he added.
In the workshop followed by 47 lecturers of Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of
Agriculture UMY, Prof. Taufik also explained some techniques and tips to write articles.
Regarding him, in terms of writing, the authors should improve their skills of writing
continuously to reach high quality articles. “You do not need to worry. It is a must to have
good will for authors so they can produce article”, he said. He realized that when people
write for the first time, they will find some difficulties on how to start. However, continuous
exercises will make them familiar and they can release better articles. He experienced the
same condition when his article was critisized by his Professor. But, the Professor gave him
some good advice. He knew his mistake and he correct it.
On the other hand, Prof Taufik spoke about his experience living in the USA. He described
the differences of education between Indonesia and the USA. In the USA, universities are
divided into two focuses, teaching and research. Universities focused on teaching provide
service to prepare people to be employees or teachers. While research universities deliver
their alumni to be scientists or researchers.
The time was the first time Prof Taufik to visit UMY. He expected that there is an intensive
cooperation between Cal Poly State University and UMY. He said “We have had cooperation
between his university and some universities in Indonesia. Especially UMY, we can perform
collaborations in terms of researches or publications”.
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